Two weeks in a row as we leave church on Wednesday night my kids have asked: "Dad, what's a witness?" As I do, I like to turn it around on them, "What do you think it means?" It always leads into a great conversation about what a witness sees and what a witness does.
It starts with seeing something with their own eyes. They've seen what happened. They can speak from personal experience. This isn't something "they heard about" this is something they saw with their own eyes and heard with their own ears. This was not their version of the telephone game.
It continues with saying what they have seen and heard. It continues with their testimony. And not as a "he said" or "she said," but as an I saw and I heard.
They see it. They talk about it. The apostles saw. They heard. And they talked about it as they said in their own words, "For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard" (Acts 4:20.
As we get ready for Sunday, think about and meditate on those things that you've seen and heard. How did God work before you were born to save you from your sins? How did God work and rule in your life to save you from your sins? Where did God put you? Whom did God put in your life so that you'd know him? Where has God put you now so that you'd be in him and know him? Where has God put you now so that you could witness and testify about him?
This Sunday we're looking at the early Christian church in Acts chapter 8 (v1-13) and we get to see our God at work, ruling the church, always for the good, always for the spread of the Gospel. This Sunday we'll get to see how God rules; how he ruled in the past for the spread of the Gospel; yes, even how he rules today for the spread of the Gospel.
God has a plan and we get to be a part of it!
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